Improvement in inkstands



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELISHA MORGAN, oF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN INKSTANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,163, dated June 1S, 1872.

Improvement n Covers for nkstands.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELISHA MORGAN, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Cover or Cap for Inkstands, of which the following is a Ihll and exact description, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section. Fig. 2 shows the cap K with its shank A. Fig. 3 represents an elevation, in perspective, with cover open. Fig. 4 represents a top view.

My improved cover or cap has an extended shank or arm, A, through the hole Ab, in which passes a spring-wire, f, each end of which is attached to the body of the stand, or, as shown in the drawing, to the lower part of the penrack. The spring-wire f may pass through the shankA at such distance from its rear end, or heel, that when the cap is raised the heel, bearing upon the stand, bends `the sprin gwire f upward. As a consequence of this,

when the cap is vraised so far that its bearing upon the stand below is brought forward of the line of the spring-wire f, the cap is thrownupward, and held open, until, by the hand, it is pressed so far down as to carry the bearing to a point behind the line of the Wire, when the action of the spring-wire f closes it.

In order to prevent the cap slipping laterally upon the wire f it may be so arranged and shaped that the shank A plays in a depression or recess, h, in the body of the stand; but I do not confine myself to this method of keeping the cap in place, as it may be held there by various devices.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the cover K, shank A, spring-wire f, and stand or rack', or their equivalents, substantially as and for the purposes described.

E. MORGAN. Witnesses:

J osEFH J OSLYN, O. K. MERRILL. 

